About
Jamie Banes is an Upstate New York-based artist working with found and collected materials. His current body of work is a series of dystopian architectural models and cityscapes emblematic of the current social and political discord of our time. He describes his work as snapshots of our present reality, symbolizing difficult and uncertain times.
Jamie has worked professionally in the areas of visual art and architecture for more than twenty years, including with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, and the Graduate School of Architecture at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Since relocating to New York from Northern California in 2021, he has worked with the Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO) and as Adjunct Lecturer at Hartwick College.
Banes holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from UC Davis and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico. His work has appeared in various galleries including the de Young Museum, Bedford Gallery, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Root Division, Slate Contemporary, Exploratorium, Corners Gallery, CANO, Cooperstown Art Association, Schweinfurth Art Center, and Aqua Art Miami.